Modern Eloquence, Volume 12Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1903 |
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Page 446
... regard , whether that expression is justified can be told in a single word . When I left the Department of the Gulf , I sat down and deliberately put in the form of an address to the people of that department the exact acts I had done ...
... regard , whether that expression is justified can be told in a single word . When I left the Department of the Gulf , I sat down and deliberately put in the form of an address to the people of that department the exact acts I had done ...
Page 466
... regard it as a sin , and consider them- selves under the most sacred obligation to use every effort to destroy it . Indeed , to the extent that they conceive they have power , they regard themselves as implicated in the sin , and ...
... regard it as a sin , and consider them- selves under the most sacred obligation to use every effort to destroy it . Indeed , to the extent that they conceive they have power , they regard themselves as implicated in the sin , and ...
Page 473
... regard the profession of devotion to the Union , on the part of those who are not our assailants , as sincere , when they pronounce eulogies upon the Union evi- dently with the intent of charging us with disunion , without uttering one ...
... regard the profession of devotion to the Union , on the part of those who are not our assailants , as sincere , when they pronounce eulogies upon the Union evi- dently with the intent of charging us with disunion , without uttering one ...
Page 537
... regards the self - governing colo- nies , we no longer talk of them as dependencies . The sense of possession has given place to the sentiment of kinship . We think and speak of them as part of ourselves , as part of the British empire ...
... regards the self - governing colo- nies , we no longer talk of them as dependencies . The sense of possession has given place to the sentiment of kinship . We think and speak of them as part of ourselves , as part of the British empire ...
Page 539
... regard to the self - governing colonies our task is much lighter . We have undertaken , it is true , to protect them with all the strength at our command against foreign aggres- sion , although I hope that the need for our intervention ...
... regard to the self - governing colonies our task is much lighter . We have undertaken , it is true , to protect them with all the strength at our command against foreign aggres- sion , although I hope that the need for our intervention ...
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